Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 9, 2025

The team is piloting care delivery in a more comprehensive fashion with remote virtual nurses, Klahn, a participant in the HealthLeaders Virtual Nursing Mastermind program for the second year, said in a recent e-mail exchange. Steve Klahn, clinical director for virtual medicine at Houston Methodist. Photo courtesy Houston Methodist.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Bedside nurses spend way too much time in documentation," Warr says. The new program, she says, assigns those tasks to the virtual nurse, who can sit in a room in another part of the hospital and handle EMR documentation for several patients. Please join the community at [link].

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Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 13, 2025

"It's communication to older adults that sounds like baby talk," said Clarissa Shaw, a dementia care researcher at the University of Iowa College of Nursing and a co-author of a recent article that helps researchers document its use. "It It arises from an ageist assumption of frailty, incompetence, and dependence." And they did."

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Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The third team member, a veteran nurse, is in the telehealth center, monitoring patients and assisting the bedside team (as well as doctors) with documentation and consults. The virtual nurse, meanwhile, sits in the background, offering support when needed, answering calls from patients, and keeping watch over several rooms.

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American Nurse

JUNE 16, 2025

Similarly, this platform cannot provide immunizations and other preventative care. The disparity in this population has been extensively documented. Primary health care experiences of autistic adults and their caregivers: Utilization, care coordination, and other challenges as reported by caregivers.

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

A comprehensive ambulatory cancer center’s journey to implementing tiered huddles Takeaways: Tiered huddles are brief conversations that occur throughout levels of an organization or across health systems to improve patient safety, communication, situational awareness, care coordination, resource utilization, patient outcomes, and service.

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Diversity Nursing

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Our days are jam-packed with patient care tasks, documentation, and care coordination. Because Nurses are at the forefront of every patient interaction, there are many things that we wish our patients knew and understood about how we work and handle our everyday tasks. Nursing is a busy and fast-paced profession.

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Relias

MAY 7, 2025

The solution: Value-based care Unlike the traditional model of collecting fees for services, where healthcare providers earn based on the volume of services rendered, a value-based care model emphasizes the quality of care delivered and its impact on patient outcomes, cost, access to certain services, and the patient experience.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 30, 2024

McManus said San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare wants to “empower the nursing workforce with mobile-based technology so that they can document more at ease on the fly.” “The Rocchio said Mercy targeted that pain point with an AI tool, aiming to improve an often confusing process that accounts for roughly 80% of documentation errors.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 30, 2024

McManus said San Diego-based Sharp HealthCare wants to "empower the nursing workforce with mobile-based technology so that they can document more at ease on the fly." "The Rocchio said Mercy targeted that pain point with an AI tool, aiming to improve an often confusing process that accounts for roughly 80% of documentation errors.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

MAY 24, 2024

Mount Sinai is using several pieces of technology to improve care coordination. Technology According to Lunt, Mount Sinai uses virtual nursing for admission and discharge documentation and patient education. The idea is that virtual nursing will expand to improve patient care overall, Lunt explained. "So

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Relias

MAY 16, 2025

Under HRRP, hospitals received financial penalties if their readmission rates exceeded the national average a move that drove greater attention to discharge protocols and transitional care. Still, the program laid essential groundwork by showing that care coordination and patient education could move the needle on readmissions.

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American Medical Compliance

MARCH 15, 2024

While EHRs offer numerous benefits, including improved documentation and care coordination, they also introduce complexities and potential vulnerabilities. Potential Vulnerabilities of EHRs Moreover, the proliferation of electronic health records (EHRs) presents both opportunities and challenges for FWA compliance.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Virtua executives say the platform aims to streamline patient care “from routine admit and discharge activities to documentation, fall prevention, and clinician safety.” [See also: Hospitals Are Looking for Hard ROI in Virtual Nursing.]

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American Nurse

JULY 10, 2023

Some triage nurses work with patients, families, and populations to promote wellness, manage acute illness, assist in managing chronic illness or disability, support families in end-of-life care, provide care coordination, or evaluate care outcomes. Document call events and provide a summary for the healthcare provider.

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Nurses Advocates

JUNE 11, 2024

The paper is titled Promoting Successful Outcomes in Primary Care. link] This paper highlights the critical role of case management and professional case managers (PCMs) in augmenting care coordination and patient outcomes across primary care organizations and providers. Here is the link to access the paper.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 28, 2024

Alongside addressing admission and discharge times, key elements of a patient’s length of stay, they’re looking at care coordination and management and documentation compliance. Analytics and reporting are part of the process, Klahn says, because “you’ve got to demonstrate ROI early on.”

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Health Leaders | Nursing

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

FitzPatrick now uses virtual nursing to offload administrative tasks so bedside nurses can focus on top-of-license practice, while Sievert says that ambient listening can cut down on clinical documentation. Another common refrain: Be brave, bold, and agile. Get comfortable with taking some risk,” Sievert says. “In

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JULY 15, 2024

Many of the tasks that the virtual nurse does are what the primary care nurse can give to them, including shift reports, admissions and discharges, care coordination, and reviewing the record to make sure there is no missing documentation. The virtual nurse also helps develop patient care plans and support new nurses.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Early on, the Camden Coalition focused on care coordination and meeting patients at the bedside to make sure they had follow-up visits scheduled. The Camden Coalition connects the dots. It is real, it works, and it is relevant to the challenges that we all face in urban areas and some rural areas," Bezich says.

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Registered Nursing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

What Is a Managed Care Nurse? Managed care nurses , also known as case managers or care coordinators, are nurses who specialize in coordinating and managing the healthcare of patients within a managed care system. Read below to learn the steps involved so you can get started in this exciting career today.

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Carlow Today & Tomorrow

AUGUST 18, 2022

Independent, but Part of a Team Some patients have many part-time caregivers, requiring careful coordination and communication. Although they are independent, nurses are not alone in providing home care and services to patients.

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Consult QD

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Trauma-informed care The first priority of any forensic nurse is to ensure that patients are treated medically, if necessary. With initial support from the federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) grant program , Cleveland Clinic has established a Care After Trauma (CAT) clinic in the Greater Cleveland area.

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American Nurse

MARCH 3, 2023

In an audit performed at the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, UK, Ali and colleagues found that 21% of patients who had experienced a fall hadn’t received a documented clinical assessment; of the patients who did, only 28% had an accurately documented 24-hour neurologic observation period.

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Every Nurse

JUNE 24, 2023

Technology has revolutionized the industry, offering new ways to deliver care and manage patient information. Electronic health records, for example, have streamlined the process of documenting patient care, making it easier for healthcare providers to access and share patient information. Here are just a few.

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Health Leaders | Nursing

JUNE 7, 2024

A good collaboration will be seen in efficient documentation, timely care delivery, and nurse satisfaction. Health systems must establish clear protocols for both nurses before launching a program, so that each nurse knows their responsibilities.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Results from an analysis can systematically uncover where the greatest gaps are occurring — which oftentimes can be the areas of greatest risk, whether they are in patient safety, care quality, patient satisfaction, organizational reputation, or other major pain point.”

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American Nurse

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nurses’ work hours typically are consumed by direct patient care, coordination, teaching, and documentation. To get their buy-in, nurses must understand the value of scholarly work and how research findings can help ensure that their current practice reflects the best and most current approach to safe patient care.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Trials are going on looking at how AI can support documentation at the bedside. This could be bedside, clinical research, education, care coordination, or a position waiting around the corner. For example, nurses should be made aware of the application of artificial intelligence (AI).

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American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Practical, evidence-based guidelines (including visual confirmation tools, documented mobility goals, continuous feedback, and education) can help nurses embrace mobilization of patients receiving ECMO therapy. Learning Objectives Explain extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) therapy. (See See ECMO explained. See What is PICS?

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. It can involve prenatal care, labor and delivery care, postpartum care, newborn care, family planning, and maternal and infant health services.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Patient medical records include documentation of patient histories and care. It also suggested care coordination and health systems infrastructure capabilities as new domains. Disadvantages of this type of data can be a lack of clinical details, accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.

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Scrubs

JULY 23, 2023

. – reluctant_spinster I worked for a large healthcare insurer with a few nurses who ran medications departments for our senior care division. – capwalton Try CDI: clinical documentation integrity specialist. Best part: 9-5, Monday-Friday gig. I had similar feelings and just knew nursing wasn’t for me.

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Nursing Review

JULY 29, 2024

“We are committed to providing additional resourcing to regional, rural, and remote general practices and primary care providers to ensure enhanced capacity, primary care sustainability, and reform readiness.” Patients have better care coordination across care teams.

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American Nurse

JULY 3, 2024

After the assessment, a physician or allowed provider signs orders (which include the patient’s plan of care) for home healthcare. Linda completes her documentation in the electronic health record during the 40-minute visit. Rogers is expecting Linda and that she has her medications available for review.

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Consult QD

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The L5 rating means that “studies in breastfeeding mothers have demonstrated that there is significant and documented risk to the infant based on human experience…and the risk of using the drug in breastfeeding women clearly outweighs any possible benefit from breastfeeding.” Medications with an L5 rating are incompatible with breastfeeding.

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American Nurse

APRIL 30, 2023

Patients with Stage B have no HF symptoms, but do have documented structural heart disease, evidence of increased filling pressures, increased BNP levels, or persistently elevated cardiac troponin with no other cause. Nurses are invaluable members of the interprofessional team caring for patients with HF at any stage.

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